Name that historical figure!

**Muizer** · January 21, 2021, 05:12 AM

dante alighieri

**Flinn** · January 21, 2021, 05:27 AM

indeed, his mortuary mask

over to you

**Muizer** · January 21, 2021, 06:17 AM

**Morticia Iunia Bruti** · January 21, 2021, 06:20 AM

Francis Gary Powers?

**Muizer** · January 21, 2021, 07:49 AM

nope

**Flinn** · January 21, 2021, 08:12 AM

Chuck Yeager?

From the pic he must have been a test pilot.. Yaeger could fit, even though I can see very few similarities in the face

**Muizer** · January 21, 2021, 10:29 AM

Not Yeager, but you're right in that he was a test pilot. He's more famous than Yeager though, I think.

**Sar1n** · January 22, 2021, 12:15 AM

More famous? Huh...

Eric Brown?

**Flinn** · January 22, 2021, 02:46 AM

Michael Collins

**Muizer** · January 22, 2021, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by Flinn

Michael Collins

We have a winner!

**Flinn** · January 22, 2021, 03:12 AM

good choice of character, that was less obvious than what one could think

You tell me the name of this group.

**Morticia Iunia Bruti** · January 22, 2021, 03:17 AM

Buddy Holly Band?^^

**Flinn** · January 22, 2021, 03:48 AM

no

**Muizer** · January 22, 2021, 06:43 AM

Via Panisperna boys / Ragazzi di via Panisperna

Basically I guessed these people might have something to do with the Manhattan project, which turned out not to be too far off, though this pic is earlier.

**Flinn** · January 22, 2021, 06:57 AM

First on the left is Enrico Fermi .. you actually have 2 Nobel prizes there (the other one being Segrè); all of them were great scientist and pioneers, with many stories to be told (for instance Bruno Pontecorvo defected to URRS in 50s; Majorana, who's not on that pic, mysteriously disappeared in '38, etc)..

However, if today we have nuclear energy (and bombs, alas) is mostly thanks to those gentlemen.. but you know, winner takes it all, so kudos went to the Americans ...

**Muizer** · January 22, 2021, 07:30 AM

**Abdülmecid I** · January 22, 2021, 10:05 AM

Calonne, one of France's last ministers of Finance, before the Revolution.

**Muizer** · January 22, 2021, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Abdülmecid I

Calonne, one of France's last ministers of Finance, before the Revolution.

Is the right answer of course.

**Abdülmecid I** · January 22, 2021, 10:18 AM

Thanks, Muizer! Let's stay on the wig category:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

The circumstances remain unclear, but he might have been accidentally responsible for one of the most important milestones in the exploration of the Earth. The goal of his mission however was purely military.